GOOD NEWS: Texas A&M is moving out of Texas' shadow in 2012, but the price it is paying is having to play in the SEC West. Yikes. Still, the Aggies will be a new story all season, and could be a handful for unsuspecting offensive lines that don't know the Aggies led the nation with 51 sacks last year. They return two who helped to do that in Sean Porter and Damontre Moore.

BAD NEWS: Welcome to the SEC. Now go find a quarterback. The Aggies lost NFL first-round draft pick Ryan Tannehill and staged spring tryouts for Jameill Showers and Johnny Manziel. Perhaps one of them can finish the job on Saturdays, which the Aggies didn't do in blowing leads in most of their losses.

LOOK AT ME NOW: Everybody will be new to SEC fans, so why not keep an eye on wide receiver Ryan Swope? Opposing defensive coordinators will. Swope had 89 catches for 1,207 yards last season. Those 89 catches? Easily more than the 67 by 2011 SEC leader Da'Rick Rogers of Tennessee.

THE CRYSTAL BALL SAYS: A&M is in a new league with a new coach in Kevin Sumlin, who was last seen throwing the ball around at Houston. The SEC did the Aggies no favor by sending them on the road to Alabama and Auburn in Year One, but they'll go nuts to have Florida, Arkansas and LSU in College Station. A tough go on the way to perhaps a break-even start in league play.

This team capsule is part of The Birmingham News' 66th annual SEC spring preview. The predicted finish is from a poll of SEC football sports information directors.

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